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One of the "undecided voters" on the panel at the Town Hall Debate - Ben Raybin - describes the experience in a guest article posted at BuzzFlash.com. The tagline at the end of the article notes that Raybin, now a law student at Vanderbilt University, is "a former staff writer for BuzzFlash." Buzz Flash is a left-wing, pro-Obama, "independent media" website, as anyone can tell by looking at the site or even just their store, the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace, where you can support the cause by purchasing Obama stickers, liberal books and Joan Baez records. As for Raybin, when he...

Don't know whether this story is accurate or not -- but [another Dem site] has a story saying that Jeb Bush ordered gaming-related documents to be shredded.  Shredding has begun, but someone ratted Jeb out.  The FBI is investigating.  Possible gaming-Jeb-Abramoff connection suggested in the article.  Hoping TPMers will give this some scrutiny.  If the story holds up, it could provide some much-needed comic relief.

Five months before Sept. 11, the government warned airlines that Middle Eastern terrorists could try to hijack or blow up a U.S. plane and that carriers should "demonstrate a high degree of alertness.”

The Peter Principles: Hitler Democrats? By PETER ROFF, UPI Senior Political Analyst WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Almost every recent national campaign has included discussions of a targeted voter bloc that allegedly represented the key to victory. One year it was soccer moms -- middle- to upper-income suburban women concerned about values issues such as education and abortion rather than pocketbook matters. In another election it was waitress moms -- single, working mothers living from paycheck to paycheck. It was the so-called "angry white males" in 1994. These voters, lately renamed "NASCAR Dads," are auto-race loving, beer-guzzling, cigarette-smoking Midwestern and...

From the anguished threads of angrydems.com (LOL): "Don't blame the media. Don't blame the Republicans. Sure as hell don't blame the American people! BLAME THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IT'S OK TO BE PISSED. Terry McAuliffe is a #^$&ing idiot. Daschle is a complete wuss. And you know they're not even going to draw the right lesson from this. No, instead they're going to decide that they need to pull back even further, to submit even more completely. What the hell are we going to do? The American people have no leaders who represent them: that's why only 40% of register voters...